Europe draws up plan to tackle energy (they are not pre-occupied

with a needless war.



http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Europe-draws-up-plan-to-tackle-energy/2007/01/09/1168104973533.html#

Europe draws up plan to tackle energy
January 9, 2007 - 4:49PM

An energy crunch that chokes fuel supplies, dims the lights in homes and workplaces, and ravages Western economies may no longer be the stuff of 1970s history books. It could be a vision of the near future.

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Worried that an even bigger crisis lies in wait, the European Commission is presenting an energy "road map" that aims to steer the bloc's 490 million people in a different direction.

The policies, of unprecedented scope, will carry a plain warning: High and volatile oil prices, surging demand, unreliable supplies and global warming compel Europe to reconfigure its energy supply before it's too late.

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The European Union, the second-largest consumer of energy in the world after the United States, is also the largest energy importer, looking abroad for just over half the energy it needs.

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The EU's blueprint, sketched out over the past year, plots a different path: lower energy consumption, the development of renewable sources and research into other alternatives, and ways of cutting carbon emissions from fuels already in use, particularly coal.

So large scale solutions to large scale problems resulting from large scale policies in the first place?

Good to know we'll make the problem worse. At least we know that before it happens.

:kick:

or has this author chosen to ignore how russia just cut the pipeline to Belarus? There is a 15% drop of natural gas supplies currently going on right now.

Sigh. I hate being on top of the news. It just frustrates the living shit out of me.